Figured velvet fabric.



F. WARNER. FIGURED VELVET FABRIQ. APPLICATION FILED MAY I9, |915.

1 1 9 1 ,487. f Patented uly 18, 1916.

u 'run sr FRANK WARNER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

FIGURED VELVET FABRIC.

Application filed May 19, 1915.

siding at 3/4, Newgate street, in the cityl and county of London, England,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Figured VelvetV Fabrics, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to the manufacture of pile or plush fabrics in which the loops constituting the pile are of different lengths, and particularly of the kind known as velvet with eitherloop or cut pile or a combination of loop and cut pile, the chief object being to produce figured velvets with varying depths orlengths of pile, whereby richer effects may be obtained than heretofore especially in oral or like designs.

According to the invention the design or pattern is produced by looping the pile warp to form different heights of pile, while the bed or ground of the design is formed by looping the warp to effect a short or low pile; thus the various portions of say any floral design may be woven with two heights of pile or plush and a third or higher por-` tion standing out to show effectively above the other and lower or shorter plush.

' In order that the invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into effect the same will now be more fully described by the aid of the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l shows by way of example the shading effect produced in the finished fabric; Fig. 2 is a section of a portion of the fabric disclosing the weave and also showing the pile wires opposite their respective piles.

a indicates the ground warp, b the low pile, o the mid pile and Z the high pile while the pile wires b', c', d are shown at the left hand side of Fig. 2; the thickness or depths of the three wires corresponding to the respective piles b, c and d. This method of weave results in the production ofl threegure effects superimposed upon each other, thus enabling a facial effect to be obtained in which the high pile constitutes the promi- Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1916.

serial No. 29,175.

nent'portion of the figure being woven (see Fig. l).

The design or pattern to be produced is effected by the jacquard in which the harness is mounted and adapted to operate to give the required lift to the pile warp and thereby enablethe wires b', c', d', to be inserted to produce the varying heights according to the pattern or design required to be Woven. For example, the high portion of the figure is constituted by the pile warps lifted during the'insertion of the highest or deepest Wire and the lower parts of the figure are effected by the pile warps lifted at the time of insertion of the medium wires, while the ground is formed by raising the pile warps when the lowest wires are inserted. Certain or all of the pile warps may be left in loop yform as may be desired in which case the wires are simply withdrawn to leave the loops intact. In the production of cut pile however the wires may be cut out either by passing a sharp knife along the groove indicated. 1n the upper surface of each wire, or by means of knives or blades attached to the ends of the Wires which on being drawn out cause the knives to effect the necessary cutting or severing of the loops as will be well understood. y

The interweaving of the ground warp, pilewarp and weft threads are clearly indicated in Fig. 2 and itwill be apparent to those skilled in the art of plush weaving how the various sheds will require to be operated for the purpose of giving the third vpile effect referred to.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is l. The manufacture of a figured velvet fabric which consists in arranging the pile of loops of selected threads at varying heights in successive wire picks, certain of said loops serving to produce a superimposed gure effect and the remaining loops forming aground for the pattern. v

2. The manufacture of a figured velvet fabric which consists in producing the figure by looping certain selected threads of the pile warp over varying heights of wires adapted to permit of a floral design being ground warp, the pile Warp, and the weft woven with two heights of pile and a ground threads to produce pile oi varying heights woven with a third and shorter pile from by selecting the threads and inserting high, w other selected threads lifted by a wire of less medium and low wires whereby a third pile 5 depth than the guring wires. effect is obtained which shows effectively 3. A figured warp Velvet fabric in which above the lower pile. the pattern is eleeted by interweaving the FRANK WARNER. 

